What Browser do YOU use? IE? Opera? Firefox?

What browser do YOU use?

  • Internet Explorer

    Votes: 25 17.7%

  • Opera

    Votes: 20 14.2%

  • Mozilla

    Votes: 6 4.3%

  • Firefox

    Votes: 93 66.0%

  • Netscape

    Votes: 2 1.4%

  • A combo of 2 or more (site compatibility)

    Votes: 18 12.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 5 3.5%
  • Total voters
    141
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WillowHawk

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Which internet browser do you guys use?
IE?
Opera?
firefox?
Netscape?
Mozilla?
god know what else?

i personally use Opera, just for the mouse gestures, and its ease of use, not to mention the sense of one program for dozens of browing windows. the Note taking is pretty cool too.
 
usually I use FireFox for day-to-day browsing, but sometimes I use IE for other things.

Mainly windowsupdate, a helpdesk site that only works in IE, etc.
 
firefox usually...but sometimes i'll need to open IE for stuff -_-
 
I'm a new convert to FireFox.

I'll keep IE around for windows updates, but oh man does FireFox impress me.
 
Links, Firefox, Mozilla Suite, Opera, and IE (mainly for compability checking when writing sites).
 
Take back the web :D

If a site doesn't display or work (or both) properly in FireFox, it's not worth visiting (with few exceptions).
 
Firefox almost 100% of the time. I never bother with Windows Updates anymore, haven't updated since SP1 (is there actually any point, apart from wasting valuable HDD space?). If there's a site that doesn't load properly or at all in Firefox I normally can't be bothered to load up Internet Explorer just for that, it's not as though I have any shortcuts for that program anyway.
 
Firefox, none of the sites I visit have issues, and it offers most features (with extensions of course).
 
The Hockster said:
haven't updated since SP1 (is there actually any point, apart from wasting valuable HDD space?)
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I don't know... patching critical flaws in Windows seems to be a good idea to me. Either patch your box to avoid becoming a spam zombie, or unplug your network cable.
 
The Hockster said:
Firefox almost 100% of the time. I never bother with Windows Updates anymore, haven't updated since SP1 (is there actually any point, apart from wasting valuable HDD space?). If there's a site that doesn't load properly or at all in Firefox I normally can't be bothered to load up Internet Explorer just for that, it's not as though I have any shortcuts for that program anyway.
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What lomn75 said using sarcasm, allow me to rephrase using bluntness:

Don't be an idiot. You need to patch your system. Otherwise, you are at higher risk for becoming a zombie box and, ( here's the important bit as far as I'm concerned ), spewing spam and whatnot at my network.
 
Firefox as the W2K primary
Konqueror in Knoppix
and IE for visiting Microsoft :p

havent had much as far as compatibility issues w\ Firefox outside from Microsoft's sites
 
To the few guys who are still in the dark ages...

There is a browser war, and your side is losing.

Get Firefox!

You won't be sorry you made the switch. :)
 
ie has never failed me

oh... hey, that rhymes... :D couldn't help noticing.
 
must be the 2nd. or my suite of ad-aware, ie firewall, and norton.

i switched from netscape 4.7 tho, cuz that was taking a crap all over the place. stinking thing couldn't read a web page to save it's *.ini file.
 
starhawk said:
must be the 2nd. or my suite of ad-aware, ie firewall, and norton.

i switched from netscape 4.7 tho, cuz that was taking a crap all over the place. stinking thing couldn't read a web page to save it's *.ini file.
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I've used the new IE with the pop up blocked and the other new stuff and I have to say it's a lot better than the old one. I still use it for windows updates, but otherwise, it's Firefox for me.

One thing I really like about it, is that I usually have a couple things open at once working, and if explorer decides to take a dive and crash (not often, maybe once a month), if you use IE for internet, all your web windows are closed down. If you use Firefox it's a seperate entity, so then you just start up another instance of Explorer and all your internet windows are still open.
 
I can't believe I ever used IE, firefox its the only way to go
 
Elledan said:
Take back the web :D

If a site doesn't display or work (or both) properly in FireFox, it's not worth visiting (with few exceptions).
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Damn right! I don't waste my time with anything else.
 
XOR != OR said:
What lomn75 said using sarcasm, allow me to rephrase using bluntness:

Don't be an idiot. You need to patch your system. Otherwise, you are at higher risk for becoming a zombie box and, ( here's the important bit as far as I'm concerned ), spewing spam and whatnot at my network.
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Or I could just carry on as normal, without the majority of patches... To be honest, it seems a bit like whether you need antivirus protection or not, although of course I am aware that no matter how sensible you are with your computer a flaw in Windows cannot be prevented by common sense: patching is virtually the only way. Still, nothing has happened to me yet, and I don't expect anything to happen either. Maybe using Firefox is why I haven't suffered any problems due to not patching, as well as no adware/spyware or viruses whatsover. Or it could be a lot to do with common sense or a good firewall setup I have. I know it's probably no where near invincible and no matter how good my firewall is I can still be exploited through critical flaws in the operating system and whatever, but the fact still remains I haven't yet, I don't expect I will do either (of course if I am, I may feel a bit gutted and begin to patch my system more seriously, or I may just install that one required patch and ignore the rest of them that are probably not related to me at all and would just waste space).
 
The Hockster said:
Or I could just carry on as normal, without the majority of patches... To be honest, it seems a bit like whether you need antivirus protection or not, although of course I am aware that no matter how sensible you are with your computer a flaw in Windows cannot be prevented by common sense: patching is virtually the only way. Still, nothing has happened to me yet, and I don't expect anything to happen either. Maybe using Firefox is why I haven't suffered any problems due to not patching, as well as no adware/spyware or viruses whatsover. Or it could be a lot to do with common sense or a good firewall setup I have. I know it's probably no where near invincible and no matter how good my firewall is I can still be exploited through critical flaws in the operating system and whatever, but the fact still remains I haven't yet, I don't expect I will do either (of course if I am, I may feel a bit gutted and begin to patch my system more seriously, or I may just install that one required patch and ignore the rest of them that are probably not related to me at all and would just waste space).
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Do me a favor then? Give me your IP address(es) so I can block them.

On a small scale, your line of thinking is ok. It's just you being affected, right? Wrong. On a large scale, ( say, internet large ), this is a dangerous attitude to have, and extremely stupid. What makes it even more moronic is the fact that you KNOW better, unlike most people out there. And you choose to do nothing about it.

Anyway. Give me those IP so I can block them. You will spew garbage eventually, if you aren't already, and I don't want any of that crap on my network, thanks.
 
The Hockster said:
Still, nothing has happened to me yet
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you dont know that, in fact your likely completely unable to acertain if your in control of your box or not, are you running your traffic through an IDS? like snort?

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=815882&highlight=rootkit

Ice Czar said:
if you are ever the victim of a real brain behind the malware, its damn near impossible to detect a rootkit without matching up traffic patterns to activity
(read snort ect)
most anything signiture based or heuristic that would tip the hand is removed
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M11 said:
No kidding. I nearly lost my job over a rootkit. Heres the story:

I basically assume sysadminship at a technology consulting firm, and one of my first tasks was to renovate the stale and depriciated network of the company's #3 client. Well, I can't wipe the server and go from 2000>2003 yet, so I find myself getting the PCs on XP, redoing group policy, etc. Well, they continued having break-ins including loss of data, spam being relayed through their mailserver(checked the SMTP logs and found "Administrator" was sending it :eek: ). All sorts of general mayhem ensued there, and no one could figure out why. I was almost fired because I could not get the breaches under control.

It turns out that the previous tech guy had been running keygens from the server, and thats how a rootkit got installed. Had I not found the keygens in an obscure folder, it would have taken me even longer to figure it out. This was enough to warrant moving to 2003 immediately, as neither of the 2000 servers could be trusted (both tested positive for the rootkit).

So please folks, remember that rootkits remain one of the greatest evils of the networked age. You don't know the computing practices of everyone on the machine, and thus assumptions anymore are hard to make.
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you could have simply visited a website and been infected with a GDI JPEG exploit that dropped a backdoor
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=813326
 
give them to me too...

and logicman... how do you block ip addresses? i have enough problems with this lappy of #@!! already.
 
I use iptables to silently drop traffic. it's not much, but I like to think if enough people do this, then it'll slow the zombies out there who have to wait for their tcp connections to time out.
 
Well I'm pretty damn sure I'm in total control of my system, is there anyway to prove it at all? As for my IP address, I'm sure you can live without it. On second thoughts, your whole network is going to suffer tremendously because of my lack of patching. I really am going to make your life a misery aren't I? I'd like that, so I won't give it. :p
 
The Hockster said:
Well I'm pretty damn sure I'm in total control of my system, is there anyway to prove it at all? As for my IP address, I'm sure you can live without it. On second thoughts, your whole network is going to suffer tremendously because of my lack of patching. I really am going to make your life a misery aren't I?
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No, but the hardforums do have a handy dandy ignore button. See ya.
 
0_o i got the flying window rather than the flying penguin.

how can i do it in winxp?
 
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